Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-13
WALL, OR WHAT Z
a Forty Five Year Old Newspaper Bewails
Persecution from Five Year Old,
Dallas News

Dallas News.
There are two ways usually adopted in
trying to build up d newspaper. One way
is to go ahead and work and push to the
front on merit. The other way Is to work
all sorts OF schemes to breek down com
petitors and rise on their ruins. The
| latter course reminds one of q highway
man always slipping around in the bushes
trying to put out of the way somebody
who makes money where the bushWhack-
er can't. Now the newspaper fellows VINO
a.e alWays-daY and night, Sunday and
Monday, mind yOu-hOping to smile &
CHASTITY smile Of triumph some day from
the top of pile OF ruins of u competitor,
must lead mighty hard and unsatistsc-
tory life. These newspaper fellows come
down every morning to their Office and
pick up the Dallas News or the Gal.
weston News If it is in the morning m.il,
End If not they send around the corner TO
the news stand for it. They do not want
to see the foreign papers for views at
Iengt 4 pro and con on the differences be-
tween the nations. They do not hunt for
northern papers for their discussions eli
broad national topics. They do not look
for the Texas papers generally to see
how they are treating current state ques-
tons. They grab the Dallas News or
Galveston News the first thing and look
every page closely TO see if
Shey can't hud something horrible
the News hiss said about q
politician, railway, drummer, Il
lpreacher, woman, state Cnicial-2ny-
taipg, 80 it is something horrible the
News has said. These newspaper fel-
! n II ri no n 70,
to write something about the News in
TENDED 10 make the public believe the
News ought not to be printed Altar the
News is read through and through and
nothing is found that cen be shown up to
the pGblic in long, powerfully lab0red
editorial, and in several nice, short edl-
torial paragraphs, quite satisfactory and
smart to The writer thereof, these news
psper fellows go to work to get some
news into their paper CT the next
day. By the time they get down to
the legitimate work OF seeing about
having all the departments Of the next is
sue Of their paper fully up to the stand
ard h&lf the daV is gone. What life to
lead is this. Going to bed at night to
get good sleep to be ready for chance
to knife neighbor next morning-a
neigh60r who is IN the way. These
newspaper fellows have been doing this
fCr many years-long before TIE Fort
Worth GAZETTE began to do it. THE GA
ZETTE has made it q daily study. So,
long years ego tie Houston TELEGRAPH
grabbed the Galveston News every MORN
ing to see If it could not find something
to t1y The News upon befors the people.
Then the Houston Union took up the
knife. Then the Galveston Times ana
Mercury and Commercial in that order
uged knife on the News daily. These
newspaper fellows were like THE CA
zETTE fellows-alwsys hunting for q
chance to ruin the News. After they got
ont OF bed in the morning they were
hdgety I'LL they got hold of the News TO
see if it had not said something that
would be the ruin of it. Other neWspa-
pers IN Texas have lancAd away at the
News for years. What lie TO leads
Some OF the papers died while knifng the
News. The Houston Telegram died; so
did the Houston Union, and the Calves
ton Times, Mercury AID Commercial.
The GAZETTE woke up only . few
days ago, and saw this paragraph
in the News: THE News is not
. hankering after after fresh row, be il
: understood; but if need be it will tackle
q pen full CT preachers" Then The GA
zETTE grins and says the News has put its
foot in it and has attacked all the preach
ers, has declared war on religion; has in
suited the whole Christian church, and sc
: on. The GAZETTE works its knife il anc
turns 1t around and awaits to see the cir.
| culGtio1 of the News scamper away anC
go over 10 THE GAZETTE. What life Il
lead These newspaper fellows at tht
Fort shot big gun of end then laid bacl
to see the whole church membership il
! Texas quit The News, boycott it, taboo it
1 xii! 1t of, What life to lead,